If you are going to shoot butterflies close up, buy a fucking macro lens or don’t bother. They look like shit, period.

Nobody but your family is interested in your niece’s wedding. The dress was nice enough, makeup okay, but a little too much black eyeliner for a “blonde”, and she should’ve touched up those dark roots in her hair before The Big Day. Next time, choose a different nail salon; that’s the worst French manicure I’ve ever seen. Waaaay too square at the tips for the shape of her nail bed; looked like a hawk’s tail. If the husband bites his nails now (and he does), I can imagine what it’s going to be like in future, and the “rings shot” is so overdone that it’s sickening. Ditto you–other dude with the pictures of your kids (doing whatever uninteresting thing). Nobody cares about your kids except…you. You know why there are no pictures of disc golf tournaments in my stream? Because I know that they’re boring to anyone who doesn’t play, and that nobody gives a fuck.

Please, please…I beg you. No more horrible shots of goldfinches, house finches, mourning doves, ruby-throated hummingbirds, or that goddamn chipmunk. Oh, and enough of your cats, too–we know what they look like by now, and you don’t need to take a new shot every time the damned cat turns its head. Get off your arse and go outside your house; there’s a lot of wildlife out there that doesn’t visit your feeders, and you can’t shoot that through the window. We are tired and sick to death of seeing the same crappy, blurry shots of the same critters over and over again. Are you using Flickr for storage? The fact that you shot it does not mean it must be posted; pick and choose, and if it’s not good, leave it out unless there’s a very good reason to include it. If an honest comment might read, “Holy chromatic aberration, Batman!” definitely leave it out. In fact, just delete it altogether. WTF are you viewing these on–a 14″ with a 4 meg video card in 256 colours?? How can you think they look good? I go through your pictures and make a few comments because you seem a nice enough person and I feel sorry for the fact that you get so few views and comments. You don’t have to be a great photographer to get interesting stuff, you just have to get out of your fucking house, and post only your decent shots.

I’m beginning to hate even virtual people, and I still have another whole page of “New photos from your contacts” to go. I already did the ones I really like, so the rest is mostly frass. Lucky me. I don’t know why I do this to myself…